Improvement in spool-exhibiters



timid iair JOHNY D. GUTTER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 113,858, (lated April 18, 1871.

IMPROVEM ENT IN SPOCL-EXHIBITERS.

The Schedule referred to 'in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom fit 'may concern Be it known that I, JOHN D. CUTTER, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Iuseful Improvement in Spool-Exhibitors for displaying silk, cotton, 85o., put upon spools, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this speci ioation, in which- Figure l is an elevation of a stand having a number of spools arranged thereon according to'y my invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional plan of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both gures.

his invention consists in a novel arrangement'of spools on spindles, arranged in rows or circular series in suspension from the top of a stand, whereby those spools which are behind the outer row or series can be distinctly seen.

The drawing represents the spools 'suspended from the top of a stand in circular rows orl series, so that those in the inner rows or series hang down lower, by

the length' of a spool, than those of the outer row orseries in front of it, the arrangement of the spools being thus made to present the form of an inverted cone, and enabling every row of spools to be displayed and easily seen.

Instead of in circular rows, the spools may also be arranged in pyramidal form with the same result.

Referring to the accompanying drawing- A is the base of the stand, to the middle of which an upright spindle` B, of a proper length, is rigidly fastened.

C is a disk, plate, or board of Wood, metal, o1' other material, which is horizontally arranged on the upper end of said spindle, so as to turn easily around the same.

A nut, a, screwing on the threaded end of the spindie, keeps the disk O in place.

D D are hollow or solid rods or spindles irmly se` cured at their upper ends to the disk O, from which they are suspended rigidly. These are arrangedV in circular ,rows, the outer row being shortest, while every succeeding row is longer for the length of a spool than its preceding one.

E E are spools, which. are placed on said rods or tubes from below to ll np their entire length, each spindle being long enough to receive several spools.

To keep the .spools from dropping oif the rods or tubes by their own weight, the lower ends of the latter are split open and formed into springs, which, in their normal condition, are spread a little wider than the holes ofthe spools, but allow thespools to be slipped over them with a slight upward pressure.

When one spool is pulled off a spindle the one next above drops down into its place.

It will be seen, by reference to iig. l of the drawing, that the lower spools of the inner row or series .can be as easily seen as those of the outer row, and can be as easily taken ofi.

What is here claimed, and desired to bc scoured by Letters Patent, is-

A spool-exhibiter, consisting of anumbcr of rods or spindles, D D, suspended in two or more rows or series from a disk, plate, or board, and arranged in length and position substantially as herein described,

whereby the lower spools on the inner row or rows of rods or spindles are displayed below those on the outer row or rows.

JOHN D. GUTTER.

Witnesses: v

F. HAYNES, R. E. RABEAU. 

